Ginseng in Ohio

Newspaper articles about poaching

Ginseng Hunters
By Connie Cartmell, Marietta Times (Marietta, OH), October 2, 2003
http://www.mariettatimes.com/news/story/104202003_new09ginsenghunt.asp

Poaching of ginseng cash crop becoming common in southeast Ohio
http://www.athensnews.com/archives/article.php3?story_id=13944
By Jim Phillips, The Athens News (Athens, OH), September 11, 2003

Dye goes to root of ginseng poaching problem
By Fred Brown, Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, TN), November 24, 2002
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/flora_and_fauna/article/0,1406,KNS_394_1565758,00.html

Mammoth Cave installs cameras, applies soil dye around plants
Associated Press, Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), September 15, 2003
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/2003/09/16/news/state/6774647.htm

NCDA&CS Ginseng Marking Program sets national standard while saving endangered plant species
Press release, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, March 29, 2000
http://www.ncagr.com/paffairs/release/2000/3-00ginseng.htm

Transcipts of radio stories about ginseng

Ginseng thieves strike the midwest
by Kaomi Goetz, Great Lakes Radio Consortium
September 1, 2003
http://glrc.org/transcript.php3?story_id=2015

 

Ginseng Resources

Growing American Ginseng in Ohio:
An Introduction
By Chip Carroll
Rural Action Sustainable Forestry
and Appalachian Forest Resources Center and Dave Apsley
Natural Resources Specialist
http://ohioline.osu.edu/for-fact/0056.html

Growing American Ginseng in Ohio:
Site Preparation and Planting Using the Wild- Simulated Approach
By Chip Carroll
Rural Action Sustainable Forestry
and Appalachian Forest Resources Center and Dave Apsley
Natural Resources Specialist
http://ohioline.osu.edu/for-fact/0057.html

Growing American Ginseng in Ohio:
Selecting a Site
By Dave Apsley
Natural Resources Specialist and Chip Carroll
Rural Action Sustainable Forestry
and Appalachian Forest Resources Center
http://ohioline.osu.edu/for-fact/0058.html

Producing and Marketing Wild Simulated Ginseng in Forest and Agroforestry Systems
By Andy Hankins, Extension Specialist, Alternative Agriculture; Virginia State University
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/forestry/354-312/354-312.html
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/forestry/354-312/354-312.pdf

Woods-Grown Ginseng
By John A. Scott, Jr., Sam Rogers, and David Cooke, WVU Cooperative
Extension Service Agents; Bobbi Lynn Fry, Research Assistant, Mercer County
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/forestry/ginseng.htm

Woodland Botanical Crop Security
By David Cooke, WVU Extension Agent, Boone and Lincoln Counties
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/forestry/Woodlandcrop.pdf

Land Access for Growing and Foraging Non-Timber Forest Products
By Brigitte A. Parsons, Graduate Researcher, Dept. of Wood Science and Forest Products;
Michael J. Mortimer, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forestry; and A.L. Hammett, Associate Professor, Dept. of Wood Science and Forest Products; Virginia Tech
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/forestry/420-131/420-131.html
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/forestry/420-131/420-131.pdf

"Wild-Simulated" Forest Farming for Ginseng Production
By Andy Hankins, Extension Specialist, Alternative Agriculture; Virginia
State University (Excerpt from a paper that appeared originally in the Temperate Agroforester, January 1997)
http://www.missouri.edu/~afta/About_AF/TAarticles/Arts_Ginseng.html

Taking Stock of American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) in Pennsylvania: Developing Resource Information for Conservation and Cultivation in the 21st Century.
Contact: Eric Burkhart, Research Assistant with the Penn State School of Forest Resources
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/wildplant/ginsengstudy.aspx

American Ginseng and the Idea of the Commons
by Mary Hufford
Reprinted from Folklife Center News 19, nos. 1 and 2, Winter-Spring 1997
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/cmnshtml/essay1/
Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia incorporates 679 excerpts from original sound recordings and 1,256 photographs from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley. Functioning as a de facto commons, the mountains have supported a way of life that for many generations has entailed hunting, gathering, and subsistence gardening, as well as coal mining and timbering. The online collection includes extensive interviews on native forest species and the seasonal round of traditional harvesting (including spring greens; summer berries and fish; and fall nuts, roots such as ginseng, fruits, and game) and documents community cultural events such as storytelling, baptisms in the river, cemetery customs, and the spring "ramp" feasts using the wild leek native to the region. Interpretive texts outline the social, historical, economic, environmental, and cultural contexts of community life, while a series of maps and a diagram depicting the seasonal round of community activities provide special access to collection materials.